Introduction to Stacer – CCleaner Alternative for Linux

Stacer is the most simple and advanced system optimizer and system monitor tool for Linux. It is an open-source tool developed by Oguzhan Inan and many other developers. Initially, it developed on the Electron environment, but now it has been rewritten in C++. This tool provides many features such as a cleaning system by removing unnecessary files and software programs. On Windows, CCleaner is the most popular tool for removing potentially unwanted files and cleaning the system. Similarly, the Stacer is the alternative to the CCleaner for monitoring and optimizing Linux systems. If you are a Linux system administrator and looking for the best and most modern system monitor tool, then the Stacer is for us.

Installation of Stacer on Linux

Now let’s see how we can install the Stacer on the different Linux distributions.

Install Stacer on Ubuntu/Debain

We can use the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) to install the Stacer on the Ubuntu or other Debian-based Linux distribution.

Use the following command to install the Stacer on the Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt install stacer

Install Stacer on the Fedora

To install the Stacer on the Fedora, we can use the DNF package manager. Use the following command to install Stacer on the Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install Stacer

Install Stacer on the Arch Linux.

We can use the Pacman package manager to install Stacer on Arch Linux and other Arch Linux-based distributions such as Garuda Linux or Manjaro Linux. Use the following command to install Stacer on the Arch Linux:

$ sudo pacman -S stacer

Now we have installed the Stacer on the Linux systems.

Features of Stacer

Stacer provides the modern graphical user interface with many great features such as system cleaning, removing unwanted packages, recovering unnecessary files, an overview of system resources and many more. Now let’s see each feature in detail.

1. Dashboard of Stacer

Dashboard of the Stacer gives an overview of the system and gives the usage of CPU, RAM, and Disk in the graphical bar form. The dashboard also shows the information about the upload and download speed of the internet system. And other information like the hostname, platform, distribution CPU Model, and CPU speed is also displayed. The main thing anyone like about the Stacer dashboard is it shows the resources’ usage in the form of bars.

2. Startup Apps

The startup section of Stacer gives information about the start-up apps. The app starts on the booting of the system. In this section, we can enable or disable the startup apps. And we can also add new startup apps from this section of Stacer.

3. System Cleaner

System cleaners remove unnecessary files from the system. We can select the wanted kind of files that should be removed. Select the category from which files should be removed and press the blue search button.

Then Stacer will show which files will be removed. Select the files which you want to remove and then click on the blue clean button.

4. Services

The Services section of the Stacer shows all services on the system. Stacer shows the service’s current running status and whether the service is starting on boot or not.

5. Processes

In the processes section, all processes are displayed with information like PID, memory consumed by the process, the user of the process and CPU percentage used by the process, and the path of the name of the process. We can also terminate the process by selecting and pressing the End Process button.

6. Uninstaller

The uninstaller section gives the ability to remove the packages installed on the system. We can remove any package by selecting a package and pressing the button Uninstall Selected. But it is not recommended to remove packages from here because this will not remove the dependencies of a package.

7. Resources

This section shows the use of resources like CPU, network, and file system. It shows all resources’ usage in the form of graphs.

8. APT Repository Manager

APT repository manager gives us the capability to add or remove the apt repository to the system. We can also disable and enable any repository using the APT repository manager.